My Name Is My Name w/ APS
by Anthony Paul Smith
My Name Is My Name is a podcast that focuses mostly on freewheeling conversations with intellectuals within academia and outside. We aim for a tone somewhere between a conference Q&A and the discussion at the bar afterwards. Mixed in will be recorded lectures, book reviews, comments on current events in the worlds of academia, politics, and culture.
Episodes
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Episode 14: Of Marshmallows and Geese
Today’s episode is a story told in the first person. The names do not refer to any person living or dead. The institution does not refer to any real institution. It expresses reality nonetheless.
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Episode 13.5: (N)one and the World
Today’s episode (65 minutes) is the audio of the “(N)one and the World” panel that took place at the Association of Continental Philosophy of Religion’s conference held at Liverpool Hope University this past July. This marks the second round of discussions between (in order of appearance) Daniel...
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Episode 13: Robin James
After much delay, today’s episode (69 minutes) is a conversation with Robin James. The ideas from her most recent book, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism are the focus of the conversation. The music in today’s episode is Les Étoiles’ “Old Photograph”. You can head to...
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Episode 12.5: (Non-)Philosophy and the Critique of the Secular
Today’s episode (86 mins) consists of three papers given by Alex Dubilet, Daniel Colucciello Barber, and myself. There were given at the University of California-Berkeley back in May and formed the first workshop for our project investigated the prospect or not of thinking a “generic secular” in...
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Episode 12: Sina Kramer
Today’s episode (65 mins) features Sina Kramer talking about her work in philosophy, what its like finding a new disciplinary home, and her forthcoming work on the philosophy of cities. At the top of the show I mention a project I’m involved with is raising funds. If you are interested please…
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Episode 11: Andrew Dilts
Today’s episode (77 mins) features Andrew Dilts talking about his recent book Punishment and Inclusion, how he ended up in political theory, and the relationship between activism and academy. I highly recommend Andrew’s book to anyone interested in understanding American democracy, both...
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Episode 10: Joshua Dubler
Today’s episode (80 mins) is a conversation with Joshua Dubler, author of Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison and former Philadelphia resident now residing in upstate New York where he teaches at the University of Rochester. In the opening I play a clip from Jared Sexton...
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Episode 9.5: Doing Violence to Theology Panel
Today’s episode (65 mins) is the recording of an AAR panel around the theme of “Doing Violence to Theology”. You will hear, in order of appearance, Sean Capener, Kate Tomas, Amaryah Jones-Armstrong, and Janice McRandal (both Amaryah and Janice also blog at Women in Theology). The music on today’s...
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Episode 9: Michael O'Rourke
Today’s episode (78 mins) is a conversation with Michael O'Rourke. Michael is a postman and independent scholar who also teaches at Independent Colleges Dublin. His most recent book, Queer Insists (For José Esteban Muñoz), was recently published with Punctum and CriticalTheory.com in its list of...
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Episode 8.5: Joshua Ramey Lecture
Today’s episode (83 mins) is the recording a lecture, “Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency"given by Joshua Ramey for the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU and a response to his lecture by Dimitris Vardoulakis. The music on today’s episode is Les...
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Episode 8: George Yancy
Today’s episode (75 mins) is a conversation with George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. George is the author of a number of books, editor of even more including an important collection of interviews with African-American philosophers, and recently has continued in his role…
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Episode 7: Alice Rekab
Alice Rekab, artist and theorist, is my guest on today’s episode (67 minutes). You can see some her work at her website and an early version of the film we briefly talk about at the Global Art & Ideas Nexus media page. There you can also watch video of Joshua Ramey, Alex Dubilet, and myself...
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Episode 6: Liam Heneghan
On today’s episode (78 mins) I sit down with ecologist and philosopher Liam Heneghan, Chair of DePaul University’s Department of Environmental Science and Studies, Co-Director of the Institute for Nature and Culture, and a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy there. You can find more of...
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Episode 5: Agata Bielik-Robson Lecture
On today’s episode (74 mins) we are lucky to have the recording of Agata Bielik-Robson’s keynote address to the joint conference of the Mystical Theology Network and the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion. Most of Agata’s work is out in Polish, but listeners will likely be very...
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Episode 4: Adam Kotsko
On today’s episode (71 mins) I sit down with my old friend Adam Kotsko of Shimer College. Many of you will know Adam not only from his academic work and pop culture writing, but also from his writing at An und für sich. We talk about how he became an academic, why he does the work he does, and…
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Mini-Episode 3.5: My Derrida Today Paper
Today is just a mini-episode of my Derrida Today Paper. Many of you on twitter said you would like to hear it and I’ve fallen behind in getting the other interviews edited (sound issues related to my old computer, may it RIP) since I’ve had to focus on finishing up the edits to my translation of...
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Episode 3 Peter Steeves
Peter Steeves joins me on this week’s episode to talk about the moments of radical break in his life, what took him from science to philosophy and then to everything, and why stones are maybe a better ethical model than anything living. You can check out Peter’s books here and see a number of his...
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Episode 2
Daniel Colucciello Barber joins me on this week’s episode to talk about how he got started in intellectual work, his new project on conversion, and his last two books : On Diasproa (Amazon: US, UK, Book Depository) and Deleuze and the Naming of God (Amazon: US, UK, Book Depository). Check out his...
About this show
My Name Is My Name is a podcast that focuses mostly on freewheeling conversations with intellectuals within academia and outside. We aim for a tone somewhere between a conference Q&A and the discussion at the bar afterwards. Mixed in will be recorded lectures, book reviews, comments on current events in the worlds of academia, politics, and culture.
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